On 2020-07-10 13:59, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > On 10.07.2020 21:01, Ernie Rael wrote: >> On Win7. To get an elevated shell, I typically do "$ ssh xxx@yyy". And not >> very often. >> Below is an excerpt of something potentially horrible that just happened. >> Note the >> rm * >> I exited the shell. I did the "ssh..." again (yeah I'm crazy), in a different >> bash window. And this time avast reported that it stashed sshd.exe into the >> virus chest.
> check on a online virus scan. > I will bet in a false positive IDP.Generic is just a generic *warning* from an identity detection protection scanner that a flakey AV detects privileged software contains some instructions or does something that it recognizes as similar to some identity theft malware. $ sha256sum /usr/sbin/sshd.exe e666018d4a22b5424385d3752b0a2718a3525e68cf1b448d4f7037bfa40c77eb */usr/sbin/sshd.exe https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e666018d4a22b5424385d3752b0a2718a3525e68cf1b448d4f7037bfa40c77eb/detection -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in IEC units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.] -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
